If I may, Mr. Chair, I have two answers to your question. One has to do with the content itself, or the access to a larger variety or diversified service. I'll take the service of pay TV, for example. In Canada, there are three operators of pay television. They offer everything that is available on five American satellite services on three. For the price of one, you get the entire offering of three American pay TV services. There's no shortage of access to diversified programming.
The second thing I think is important to both the consumers and the players in that field, because we depend on their strength and on their availability. The government has licensed--and the CRTC eventually licensed--a number of new players in the field of wireless. These new players are just coming into the business. They have invested hundreds of millions of dollars. If tomorrow we were, as a Canadian government, to authorize an American company--like Verizon or AT&T or any of them--to come into the market before these new entrants had even made their business case work and had started to gain from their millions of dollars in investment on Canadian territory, I don't think that would be fair. I think it's premature to look into that.
I think there is no rush to go in that direction. We will more than double the competition in those services within a year at a really high cost. To come today and say, “You've paid a lot of money to get here, but guess what, we're authorizing the giants from the United States to come and compete against you here”, I think would not be the proper approach for the government. I think it would be totally unfair to do that to these new entrants.
I think the consumers would not benefit from that.